Quote of the day

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance, the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. Mark Twain

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age

--- Booth Tarkington ---

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

mencken: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

I have to study politics and war so that my sons have the freedom to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons should study mathematics and philosophy, as well as geography, natural history, shipbuilding, navigation, commerce and agriculture, so that they give their children the right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, decoration and porcelain.

John Adams

«If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough».

(Oprah Winfrey)

    Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

       Valerie Bertinelli

     Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

          The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

           Scott Adams

         Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
         Hunter S. Thompson

          I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill. 

         Robert A. Heinlein 

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten 

--- Benjamin Franklin --- 

Write shortly - and you will read it. Write clearly - and you will understand. Write graphically - and you will remember it.

Joseph Pulitzer

"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
Nicolas Chamfort

one more "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." Carol Burnett

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorow"

A.P.J  Abdul Kalam 

Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

"There is nothing permanent except change."

Heraclitus

      Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. --Benjamin Franklin

       It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

                                         --Seneca

One of the greatest joys of this world is friendship. One of the joys of friendship is to have someone to confide his secrets to

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

one more: "There is nothing permanent except change."
Heraclitus

and this i didn't understand at beggining: "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
Jane Austen

For a father whose child dies, the future dies. For a child whose parents are dying, the past is dying.

Berthold Auerbach

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness

Abraham Maslow

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

If one does not know which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable 

--- Lucius Annaeus Seneca ---

All Change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe.

Anatole France

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Yoko Ono

GO BIG OR GO HOME!!!!!!!!

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate

--- Margaret Heffernan --- 

Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never let your best friends get lonely... keep disturbing them

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

-Steve Martin

The arrival of spring and the return of winter fold by turns the leaflet of the book of our life.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe.

Anatole France

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

-Mark Twain

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

If you want life to smile, bring your good humor first.

Quote from Baruch Spinoza

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Money: a means to have everything but a sincere friend, a disinterested lover and good health.

George Bernard Shaw

"Be kind to every kind, not just mankind."

Anthony Douglas

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift

--- Walter Darby Bannard ---

The philosophers condemn wealth only because we use it badly.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The desire that arises from joy is stronger than the desire that arises from sadness.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

This is so true in all aspects!!! After  the loss of my son and grandson in 2016 we learn in this family to keep fighting in the memory of them and I always tell my children I love them everyday as well as my friends...life is a gift not a privilege.......live each day to the fullest!!!